This army of yours is a band of wanton children, long chid and beaten, breaking out from school.
My captain has arrived, and I do know, When honour and when duty call upon me, Thou wouldst not have me chid for tardiness.
I was greatly alarmed at this exclamation; perceiving which, the Queen my mother called my sister to her, and chid her very severely.
And when Lucetta offered the letter to Julia, she would not receive it, and chid her maid for taking letters from Proteus, and ordered her to leave the room.
My master no longer chid or beat me, but one day told my father that he had no doubt that one day I should be an honour to Wales.
And she rated and chid them exceedingly for troubling her.
The good lady chid her with all a true mother's gentleness, and told her to leave the room, adding that all who came there only desired that she should be saved eternally.
When she brought it she gently chid me for not having danced with her, her sister, or her cousin.
I chid her for her awkwardness in waiting on me, and repulsed her at every step.
And he was welcomed by all but Cato; who, taking him privately aside, chid him for coming to Pompey.
Come to our ship, I chid and told by name Each man how impiously he was to blame.
Georgiana chid at an internal wrath that struggled to win her lips.
Instead of uttering which, they chid themselves severally for entertaining such coarse ideas of their idol.
He even chid his daughter for having neglected, in the distress of the morning, some trifling domestic duties which fell under her department.
Then he chid himself for the feeling he had against the Russian.
Have I chid men for[1676] unmanly choyse, That would not fit their yeares?
She knew that words are powerless to help the soreness of such wounds, and yet she chid herself that she had so failed to comfort her.
Graeme could not conceal, indeed she did not try to conceal, from her friend, how much she feared the parting from him, and though Janet chid her for the tears that fell so fast, it was with a gentle tenderness that only quickened their flow.
It was too dreadful to be true; and she chidherself for always seeing the possible dark side of future events, and told herself that she must change in this respect.
But he that had but one argument left, that on all occasions served to convince her, had at last recourse to that, which put her in good humour, and hanging on his neck, she kindly chid him for putting such a trick upon her lady.
Have I chid men for[248] [an] unmanly choice, That would not fit their years?
I am of age to speak, And I know when to speak: shall I bechid For such a-- MRS GOUR.
At the Tower stairs we stopped to take on board a gentleman in a very fine peach-blossom suit, and with a huge periwig, at which Papillon began to laugh, and had to be chid somewhat harshly.
And he was welcomed by all but Cato; who, taking him privately, chid him for coming to Pompey.
I could not forbear repeating though she had chid me for it before, how much I had been struck with several instances of her indifference to the work, and her superiority to its pleasures.
Stay a little with me, My thoughts have chid themselves: may I not kiss you?
That honesty and honor had propounded, I, and absolv'd my tender will, and chid me, Nay then unwillingly flung me on?
And Noorna chid it with her forefinger, crying, 'O Koorookh!
And she chid Koorookh angrily, he with a heavy eye sulking, and keeping the sullen feathers close upon his poll.
She pointed to Nashta, and the King chid the girl, and sent her forth lean with his shifted displeasure, as a kitten slinks wet from a fish-pond where it had thought to catch a great fish.
Bhanavar was nigh weeping with vexation, and pushed him from her, and chid him with lack of love and weariness of her; and the eye of the Prince rose to her brow to read it, and he saw the Jewel.
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